Aug 19, 2024 | Blog, Business tips
We service-based business owners often run a pretty lean ship, especially in the earlier years of our business. Which means we want to be sure that where we invest is going to pay off. When I first started my business I had a redundacy payout sitting in my bank...
Mar 26, 2024 | Blog, Business tips, Life, Productivity
As a solo, service-based business owner, I am very familiar with productivity. The usual starting point for selling services is time = money, so virtual assistants aim to get very good at maximising the value we can squeeze into every hour. The topic has also...
Mar 12, 2024 | Blog, Business tips, Life, Productivity
Earlier this year I celebrated 9 years of running my business (whaaaat?!). It’s kind of weird, because I never officially set out to “start a business” – I needed an income, I didn’t like any of the jobs on Seek, so I thought well maybe I can help people and...
Dec 19, 2023 | Blog, Business tips, Life
Whether you’re a deep-and-detailed planner or you tend to be more loosely guided by a vision and some juicy ideas, every business owner will spend some time planning what the next month, 6 months, or year will look like for them. There’s a bunch of resources available...
Nov 24, 2023 | Blog, Business tips, Life, Productivity
How often are you taking time off from your virtual assistant or OBM business? As in fully stepping away, off the tools, head out of the game? Chances are, if you’re a solo service-based business owner, this isn’t happening nearly as often as it should! As...
Sep 6, 2023 | Blog, Business tips, Online courses, Outsourcing
If you’re preparing to launch your first online course, chances are a big question in your mind is: which is the best platform for my online course? I’ve been asked this question 3 times in the past couple of weeks, and I see it all the time in groups where online...